ABC Bunny {b4FIAR}

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The ABC Bunny is a cute, simple yet energetic (and musical!) alphabet book. We "rowed" this, using b4FIAR, with a 23 month old, a 4 year old, and a 7 year old. I really wanted to focus on the 4 yr old this year, so here we are with b4FIAR! Also, click here to read how I brought this up to a 2nd grade level for Connor.

Bible:

We focused on orderliness this week. Lots of various readings of Creation. My favorite was the Jesus Storybook Bible reading. Also, starting our *Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions
worked out perfect this week. I just love these devotionals. We have the kindle version, but I wish we had ordered the hard copy - it is such a treasure!

The site Christian Preschool Printables is also so helpful to us. We used part of their Creation set, the "Days of Creation File Folder Game".

For extra reading we read:

*The Berenstain Bears Discover God's Creation - reinforcing the need for nature, not electronics. My kids got a kick out of Papa Bear at the end of this much needed tale.
*Jillian Jiggs
- a humorous tale of a very creative girl who just can't take a break to clean up. "Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs, it looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!" (this was Emma's favorite read this week).

Language Arts:

I always find a fair amount of books, from our own library and the public one, to put in a basket on the floor. This is why:

I found great go-along books:
*Discovering Nature's Alphabet by Krystina Castella. The kids adored this book and when we went on a nature walk they were so enthusiastic (no prompting) to find letters in nature.
*Step Gently Out
- poetry and photography, I was in love. The kids? Not so much. lol.

finding letters in nature

Back at home, we played with an alphabet puzzle (I think I found it at the $ store). We also tried out the read/build/write from Homeschool Creations. Emma is really into cats right now so I encouraged her to do the "kitten" card. She insisted we needed "pink kitty" instead. Then that was that for spelling practice. She's only 4, so there's no rush. I offered, she wasn't interested, and that is perfectly okay.

For science I had chosen for the kids to learn about insects, so the nursery rhyme this week was "itsy bitsy spider". Over at KizClub there are tons of adorable props and learning tools you can find, like this one, shown below, for the Itsy Bitsy Spider. Emma thought it was so funny to add in all the rhymes while reciting the nursery rhyme.

Math/Science:(I found they sort of overlap each other)

*1 Is One
by Tasha Tudor - I felt this was a perfect match for The ABC Bunny (especially if you're camping while rowing this book!). It's a beautifully illustrated "living math" book, set in nature.

One day we played with *Busy Bugs Learning Set (patterning) and we also did a cat pattern from PreKinders. Emma preferred to color the cat, adding a dress and legs to the bottom. The end result was quite amusing.

We read books on fireflies (because of the bug theme we were doing, and because we would be camping and how fun would it be to end the week with a firefly hunt!?)

There is just so much you could trail off to do with the ABC Bunny. We could have easily spent a month just on this one book, if we wanted. We only trailed off to learn about bugs (because we would soon be camping), but there's so much more to do!

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